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Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules

Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities

The Rip review – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon tear through flashy Netflix bro thriller

The longtime friends and colleagues add weight to Joe Carnahan’s enjoyably boisterous Friday night crowdpleaser

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

Ashley St Clair files lawsuit in state of New York over deepfakes that appeared on social media platform X

AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn’t and what to look out for

It’s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance – but this doesn’t come without risks

Grok AI: what do limits on tool mean for X, its users and UK media watchdog?

UK users will no longer be able to create sexualised images of real people using @Grok X account, with Grok app also expected to be restricted

More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK

Letters sent using campaign group’s template as Keir Starmer indicates Australia-style move being considered

Matthew McConaughey trademarks ‘All right, all right, all right’ catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes

The Oscar winner intends to combat misuse of the famous line from Dazed and Confused by creating ‘a clear perimeter around ownership’

‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand

More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

‘Not regulated’: launch of ChatGPT Health in Australia causes concern among experts

Calls for clear guardrails and consumer education before wider rollout of OpenAI’s health advice platform

Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns

Environment minister says attacks on social media affect perceptions of meteorology and denigrate researchers’ work

Melissa Leo: ‘Winning an Oscar was not good for me or my career’

The actor answers your questions on her preference for playing goodies or baddies, kissing Denzel Washington and sneaking a nap on set

Sadiq Khan to urge ministers to act over ‘colossal’ impact of AI on London jobs

In Mansion House speech, mayor will talk of opportunities technology offers but highlight mass unemployment risk

Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says

‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails

More than 4.7m social media accounts blocked after Australia’s under-16 ban came into force, PM says

Accounts removed or restricted on Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, X, TikTok and Reddit in world-leading ban

Musk’s X to block Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people

UK government claims vindication after Keir Starmer criticised earlier decision to keep functionality as ‘horrific’

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  • Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI
  • Tell us: do you believe you have been filmed by Meta’s smartglasses without your consent?
  • Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die
  • The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK
  • BBC hires 26-year-old entrepreneur to help reach younger audiences
  • ‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction
  • ‘James Dean has got nothing on that kid’: River Phoenix films – ranked!
  • Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
  • Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
  • Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
  • Super Troopers 3 review – misfiring cop comedy threequel
  • Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
  • Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
  • Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
  • Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays
  • How to Feed a Dictator review – what was on the menu for some of the world’s most evil men
  • American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
  • ‘Basically, you give yourself to the man’: Trewley Precious Temple on her life as a Gypsy wife – and beyond
  • ‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion
  • ‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting
  • Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
  • ‘Disturbing’: TikTok faces criticism after Perez Hilton livestreams self-harm
  • AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
  • The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past
  • One Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom
  • AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
  • Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
  • Darth Vader to become a TikTok star as Disney strikes deal on short video
  • ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’

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